scholarly journals Oncogene cooperation in lymphocyte transformation: malignant conversion of E mu-myc transgenic pre-B cells in vitro is enhanced by v-H-ras or v-raf but not v-abl.

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
W S Alexander ◽  
J M Adams ◽  
S Cory

Although transgenic mice bearing a c-myc gene controlled by the immunoglobulin heavy-chain enhancer (E mu) eventually develop B-lymphoid tumors, B-lineage cells from preneoplastic bone marrow express the transgene but do not grow autonomously or produce tumors in mice. To determine whether other oncogenes can cooperate with myc to transform B-lineage cells, we compared the in vitro growth and tumorigenicity of normal and E mu-myc bone marrow cells infected with retroviruses bearing the v-H-ras, v-raf, or v-abl oncogene. The v-H-ras and v-raf viruses both generated a rapid polyclonal expansion of E mu-myc pre-B bone marrow cells in liquid culture and 10- to 100-fold more pre-B lymphoid colonies than normal in soft agar. The infected transgenic cells were autonomous, cloned efficiently in agar, and grew as tumors in nude mice. While many pre-B cells from normal marrow could also be induced to proliferate by the v-raf virus, these cells required a stromal feeder layer, did not clone in agar, and were not malignant. Most normal cells stimulated to grow by v-H-ras also cloned poorly in agar, and only rare cells were tumorigenic. With the v-abl virus, no more cells were transformed from E mu-myc than normal marrow and the proportion of tumorigenic pre-B clones was not elevated. These results suggest that both v-H-ras and v-raf, but apparently not v-abl, collaborate with constitutive myc expression to promote autonomous proliferation and tumorigenicity of pre-B lymphoid cells.

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
W S Alexander ◽  
J M Adams ◽  
S Cory

Although transgenic mice bearing a c-myc gene controlled by the immunoglobulin heavy-chain enhancer (E mu) eventually develop B-lymphoid tumors, B-lineage cells from preneoplastic bone marrow express the transgene but do not grow autonomously or produce tumors in mice. To determine whether other oncogenes can cooperate with myc to transform B-lineage cells, we compared the in vitro growth and tumorigenicity of normal and E mu-myc bone marrow cells infected with retroviruses bearing the v-H-ras, v-raf, or v-abl oncogene. The v-H-ras and v-raf viruses both generated a rapid polyclonal expansion of E mu-myc pre-B bone marrow cells in liquid culture and 10- to 100-fold more pre-B lymphoid colonies than normal in soft agar. The infected transgenic cells were autonomous, cloned efficiently in agar, and grew as tumors in nude mice. While many pre-B cells from normal marrow could also be induced to proliferate by the v-raf virus, these cells required a stromal feeder layer, did not clone in agar, and were not malignant. Most normal cells stimulated to grow by v-H-ras also cloned poorly in agar, and only rare cells were tumorigenic. With the v-abl virus, no more cells were transformed from E mu-myc than normal marrow and the proportion of tumorigenic pre-B clones was not elevated. These results suggest that both v-H-ras and v-raf, but apparently not v-abl, collaborate with constitutive myc expression to promote autonomous proliferation and tumorigenicity of pre-B lymphoid cells.


1986 ◽  
Vol 164 (4) ◽  
pp. 1129-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
D L Greiner ◽  
I Goldschneider ◽  
K L Komschlies ◽  
E S Medlock ◽  
F J Bollum ◽  
...  

This study identifies defects in the early stages of lymphopoiesis that may contribute to the abnormalities in the development and/or function of peripheral T and B lymphocytes in mice homozygous for the motheaten (me/me) and viable motheaten (mev/mev) mutations. The results indicate that in me/me and mev/mev mice prothymocytes in bone marrow are present in essentially normal numbers, as determined by intrathymic injection, but apparently lack the ability to home effectively to the thymus, as determined by intravenous transfer; early B lineage cells in bone marrow, identified by the B220 antigen, are markedly depleted, including immature B cells (sIg+), pre-B cells (cIg+, sIg-), and pro-B cells (B220+, cIg-, sIg-); TdT+ bone marrow cells, especially a subset that expresses the B220 B lineage antigen, are markedly depleted by two weeks of age; normal numbers of TdT+ thymocytes are present during the first 3 wk of postnatal life, but rapidly decrease thereafter. The results further indicate that neither the defective thymus homing capacity of prothymocytes nor the deficiency of TdT+ bone marrow cells is due to autoantibodies. The possible relationship of the defective development of lymphoid precursor cells to the premature onset of thymic involution and to the abnormalities of peripheral T and B lymphocytes in me/me and mev/mev mice is discussed; as are the results of in vitro studies (presented in a companion paper), which suggest that a primary defect in the stromal microenvironment of the bone marrow is responsible for the abnormal development of the lymphoid precursor cells.


1990 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 3562-3568
Author(s):  
M Principato ◽  
J L Cleveland ◽  
U R Rapp ◽  
K L Holmes ◽  
J H Pierce ◽  
...  

Murine bone marrow cells infected with replication-defective retroviruses containing v-raf alone or v-myc alone yielded transformed pre-B cell lines, while a retroviral construct containing both v-raf and v-myc oncogenes produced clonally related populations of mature B cells and mature macrophages. The genealogy of these transformants demonstrates that mature myeloid cells were derived from cells with apparent B-lineage commitment and functional immunoglobulin rearrangements. This system should facilitate studies of developmental relationships in hematopoietic differentiation and analysis of lineage determination.


1978 ◽  
Vol 148 (5) ◽  
pp. 1251-1270 ◽  
Author(s):  
W C Yang ◽  
S C Miller ◽  
D G Osmond

Radioautographic DNA labeling and rosetting techniques were combined to study the development of surface IgM, Fc, and complement receptors (FcR, CR) on small lymphocyte populations in mouse bone marrow. [3H]thymidine was either infused continuously to label newly formed cells for periods up to 4 days, or injected daily, 21--35 days before use, to label a sample of long-lived cells. Bone marrow cells were incubated with sensitized sheep erythrocytes to detect surface IgM, FcR, and CR, respectively, and examined radioautographically after cytocentrifugation. During [3H]thymidine infusion, marrow small lymphocytes lacking surface markers were the first to show [3H]thymidine labeling. Most of these cells became labeled by 4 days (IgM--ve, 89%; FcR--ve, 92%; Cr--ve, 88%). Labeling of small lymphocytes bearing surface IgM, FcR, and Cr began after an initial lag and increased to high values by 4 days (IgM + ve, 73%; FcR + ve, 82%; CR + ve, 83%). Labeled IgM + ve small lymphocytes formed progressively larger rosettes as cell age increased. Some proliferating large lymphoid cells formed rosettes for IgM, FcR, and CR. Labeled long-lived small lymphocytes expressed surface IgM, FcR, and CR, the incidence of each receptor being uniformly high (38--43%) and the rosettes tending to be larger than those formed by newly formed lymphocytes. In double-surface marker studies, FcR and CR rosettes were formed by some IgM--ve small lymphocytes as well as IgM + ve cells in the marrow. After transfusion of marrow cells from donor mice infused with [3H]thymidine for 24 h, many labeled newly formed lymphocytes homed into the splenic red pulp of unlabeled syngeneic recipients. Subsequently, these cells showed a rapid increase in the incidence of rosettes for surface IgM, FcR, and CR, together with a progressive enlargement of each type of rosette. Although all the labeled small lymphocytes recovered from the spleen developed both surface IgM and FcR by 3 days, only approximately one-half developed CR. The results demonstrate that most of the small lymphocytes bearing FcR, CR, and surface IgM in mouse bone marrow are newly formed indigenous cells. Each receptor becomes detectable by rosetting soon after the small lymphocytes are first produced. The newly formed, marrow-derived small lymphocytes are able to continue their development of surface IgM, FcR, and CR after migrating into the spleen, consistent with a maturation of primary B lymphocytes. In addition, the data indicate the genesis in mouse marrow of a non-B lineage of lymphocytes (notably, IgM--ve FcR + ve cells.). A minority of small lymphocytes bearing IgM, FcR, and CR in mouse marrow are long-lived cells, presumptive recirculating immigrants, differing in receptor status from the newly formed cells. The results are discussed with regard to the heterogeneity of marrow lymphocytes and proposed models of primary B lymphocyte and null lymphocyte production.


Blood ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 1132-1138
Author(s):  
DE Williams ◽  
AE Namen ◽  
DY Mochizuki ◽  
RW Overell

The cDNA for interleukin-7 (IL-7) was recently isolated from a stromal cell line derived from a long-term B-lymphoid culture. We report that purified recombinant murine IL-7 can promote the clonal growth in semi- solid culture of a subpopulation of cells expressing the B220 surface antigen from normal murine bone marrow. These colony-forming cells (CFC- Pre-B) give rise to colonies of 20 to 1,000 cells after 7 days in culture. Morphologic examination of cells within the colonies showed a characteristic lymphoid morphology, and histochemical examination demonstrated an absence of markers associated with granulocyte, macrophage, eosinophil, or megakaryocyte differentiation, as well as an absence of hemoglobinization (indicative or erythroid differentiation). IL-7 was found to specifically enhance the infection of CFC-Pre-B but not CFU-GM when the cytokine was present during a 48-hour co- cultivation period between irradiated, retrovirus-producing psi 2 clones and normal mouse bone marrow cells. In contrast, IL-3 enhanced the infection of CFU-GM but not CFC-Pre-B. Thymidine suiciding studies suggest that this targeted infection is due to specific induction of cycling of CFC-Pre-B by IL-7 and CFU-GM by IL-3. These data demonstrate that IL-7 can target retroviral infection into a specific subpopulation of early B-lymphoid cells (CFC-Pre-B), and that IL-7 cannot directly promote the in vitro clonal growth of myeloid committed progenitor cells (ie, CFU-GM).


1987 ◽  
Vol 165 (2) ◽  
pp. 444-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y H Park ◽  
D G Osmond

Bone marrow cells were examined by double immunofluorescent labeling techniques to detect determinants for the B lineage monoclonal antibody, 14.8, the nuclear enzyme, terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT), cytoplasmic mu chains (c mu), and surface mu (s mu). In 8-9-wk-old C3H/HeJ mice, 14.8+ cells totalled 22.2% of all marrow cells (35 X 10(5) cells/femur). While many 14.8+ cells were c mu+ s mu- pre-B cells and s mu+ B lymphocytes (17.0%), the remainder (5.2%) were large cells lacking mu chains. After injecting vincristine sulfate, these 14.8+ mu- cells accumulated in mitosis at a rate of 13.5%/h (turnover time, 7.4 h). Their calculated total production rate (41 X 10(6) cells/whole marrow/d) exceeded that previously determined for large pre-B cells, suggesting some cell loss from the B lineage. TdT+ cells made up 1.8% of marrow cells and were mainly medium-sized cells. They all lacked mu chains, but half (0.9%) bound 14.8 antibody at low to medium intensity. Three discrete cell populations were thus defined, differing in mean cell diameter TdT+ 14.8- mu-, 9.5 micron; TdT+ 14.8+ mu-, 10 microns; and TdT- 14.8+ mu-, 11.5 micron, presumptively representing a sequence of cell stages preceding the expression of mu chains in large pre-B cells (TdT- 14.8+ c mu+ s mu-, 11.5 microns). This work provides a tentative model of early progenitor cells and their proliferation in normal marrow as a basis for studies of perturbations and the control of B lymphocytopoiesis.


1977 ◽  
Vol 145 (5) ◽  
pp. 1382-1386 ◽  
Author(s):  
E S Metcalf ◽  
N H Sigal ◽  
N R Klinman

The susceptibility to in vitro tolerance induction has been implicated as a characteristic of B cells early in their development, since DNP-reactive B cells are tolerizable only during the first days after birth, and 25% of adult bone marrow cells are tolerizable. In the present study, a modification of the in vitro splenic focus technique was utilized to determine if PC-specific B cells, by virtue of their late expression (approximately 1 wk post-parturition), also display susceptibility to tolerance induction. The results demonstrate that at 7-10 days after birth, when over 90% of the DNP-specific splenic B cells are resistant to tolerance induction, the majority of PC-specific B cells are tolerizable. These results re-emphasize tolerance susceptibility as a characteristic of developing clones, confirm the late acquisition of PC-specific B cells, and support the contention that the acquisition of the specificity repertoire is a highly ordered, specifically predetermined process which is independent of antigen-driven events.


Blood ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 464-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
ER Pearl

Abstract Pre-B-cells are bone marrow lymphoid cells that lack surface immunoglobulin (sIg-) but contain intracytoplasmic (c) IgM heavy chains and are probably the immediate precursors of immature sIgM+ B lymphocytes. To better understand early stages of B-cell development, immunofluorescence techniques were employed to identify pre-B-cells and B lymphocytes and to examine the expression of sIgM in vitro by human marrow that had been previously depleted of B cells by immunoadsorption. Marrow was derived from patients with acute leukemia in long-term remission off therapy and from a variety of controls. The pre-B-cell compartment was greatly expanded in the marrow of leukemia remission patients for more than 2 yr following cessation of therapy. A similar finding was noted in two patients with lymphoma who had also completed chemotherapy, but not in three with solid tumors prior to therapy. sIgM+ B cells appeared in cultures of sIg- marrow cells from leukemia patients, but not the controls, and only after exposure to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). At least some of the sIgM+ lymphocytes also expressed cIgM and were probably derived from pre-B-cells. The results of this study (A) confirm that patients who have completed treatment for acute leukemia have a prolonged elevation of pre-B-cell proportions, (B) demonstrate that similar abnormalities may exist in patients with certain solid tumors following chemotherapy, and (C) suggest that a fraction of sIg- human marrow cells, perhaps pre-B- cells, bear a receptor for EBV and can be induced to express to sIgM in vitro.


Blood ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 1132-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
DE Williams ◽  
AE Namen ◽  
DY Mochizuki ◽  
RW Overell

Abstract The cDNA for interleukin-7 (IL-7) was recently isolated from a stromal cell line derived from a long-term B-lymphoid culture. We report that purified recombinant murine IL-7 can promote the clonal growth in semi- solid culture of a subpopulation of cells expressing the B220 surface antigen from normal murine bone marrow. These colony-forming cells (CFC- Pre-B) give rise to colonies of 20 to 1,000 cells after 7 days in culture. Morphologic examination of cells within the colonies showed a characteristic lymphoid morphology, and histochemical examination demonstrated an absence of markers associated with granulocyte, macrophage, eosinophil, or megakaryocyte differentiation, as well as an absence of hemoglobinization (indicative or erythroid differentiation). IL-7 was found to specifically enhance the infection of CFC-Pre-B but not CFU-GM when the cytokine was present during a 48-hour co- cultivation period between irradiated, retrovirus-producing psi 2 clones and normal mouse bone marrow cells. In contrast, IL-3 enhanced the infection of CFU-GM but not CFC-Pre-B. Thymidine suiciding studies suggest that this targeted infection is due to specific induction of cycling of CFC-Pre-B by IL-7 and CFU-GM by IL-3. These data demonstrate that IL-7 can target retroviral infection into a specific subpopulation of early B-lymphoid cells (CFC-Pre-B), and that IL-7 cannot directly promote the in vitro clonal growth of myeloid committed progenitor cells (ie, CFU-GM).


2003 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel R Carreno ◽  
Laphalle Fuller ◽  
James M Mathew ◽  
Gaetano Ciancio ◽  
George W Burke ◽  
...  

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